UC Davis Dedicates Biophotonics Center

SACRAMENTO, CALIF. -
The University of California, Davis (U.C. Davis) dedicated the $20-million Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology on January 30, 2006. Located in the Oak Park Research Building in Sacramento, Calif., the 40,000-sf facility will accommodate 100 researchers from U.C. Davis and other partner institutions including U.C. Berkeley, U.C. San Francisco, Stanford University, Mills College, and Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. The research focus of the center was established in 2002 with a grant of $40 million from the National Science Foundation. Biophotonics involves the use of light to study cell function and to treat disease.